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Science • Jul 18

'Fireball' meteorite that smashed into New Jersey home contains ingredients of life from ancient proto-planet

Scientists have discovered the building blocks of life inside a meteorite that smashed through a New Jersey home two years ago. The space rock contains...

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Science • Jul 18

New Black Hole Theory Solves a 50-Year-Old Problem

Scientists may have found a more realistic set of thermodynamic rules for black holes that never stop changing.

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Science • Jul 18

Six miles below the Pacific, with no sunlight and no photosynthesis, a Chinese submersible found thousands of blood-red tubeworms and white clams thriving on leaking methane — the deepest animal ecosystem ever discovered on Earth

On 30 July 2025, a team from the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering (IDSSE) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences published a paper in Nature.

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Science • Jul 18

FCC greenlights 50,000 giant space mirrors to sell 'sunlight on demand' — scientists call it an 'existential threat'

Will Reflect Orbital's satellites help build a cleaner, more sustainable future — or cause widespread harm in a world where the sky “does not go dark when...

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Science • Jul 18

This New Process Turns Plastic Trash Into Clean Fuel Instead of Pollution

Power Shift is Ellyn Lapointe's ongoing Gizmodo series that explores advancements in green technology, with a focus on renewable energy, grid modernization,...

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Science • Jul 18

Weekend reads: Private info in ‘most’ arXiv preprints; why did George Church decline authorship; 28 misconduct cases in China

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: 'Disappointed': Cochrane...

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Science • Jul 18

Voyager 1 has no engine running. The 38,000-mile-per-hour speed it has held since its Saturn flyby in 1980 is borrowed momentum from planets it grazed more than four decades ago, and that free ride carries it to one light-day from Earth this November

Voyager 1 is often imagined as a spacecraft still pushing itself outward, an engine burning faintly somewhere beyond the planets.

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Science • Jul 18

You’ll Never Guess What Tasty Molecule Astronomers Just Detected In Space

Outer space: it's cold, it's dark, it's mostly empty. And it's occasionally very sweet. Astronomers peering into the heart of our galaxy have spotted traces...

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Science • Jul 18

You’ll Never Guess What Tasty Molecule Astronomers Just Detected In Space

Astronomers peering in the heart of the Milky Way have spotted sugar floating in space for the first time.

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Science • Jul 18

They Don’t Fight Crime, but They Do Eat Bugs: The Bats of N.Y.C.

Several species of bats have made the city's patchwork green spaces their homes, much to the surprise of some scientists.

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Science • Jul 18

Can We Ever Understand Consciousness?

In the AI age, what makes humans conscious—and if consciousness even exists—has taken on a new urgency. - Sam Buntz.

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Science • Jul 18

A planet orbiting twin suns was directly photographed in 2025, hugging its two stars six times closer than any other world ever found in a binary system — a real version of Tatooine that should not, according to current theory, be able to exist there

A planet can orbit two stars without being strange in fiction. The strange part is finding one in a real telescope image, tucked far closer to its twin suns...

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Science • Jul 18

If a whale gets lost, can it find its way home? The kids’ quiz

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes ​

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Science • Jul 18

1,000 Days Until ‘God Of Chaos’ Asteroid Stuns Skywatchers

In 1000 days, on April 13, 2029, the near-Earth asteroid Apophis will make one of the closest flybys of a large asteroid ever predicted with certainty.

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Science • Jul 18

Apollo 13 set the record for the farthest humans had travelled from Earth by accident in 1970, after an explosion forced it into an emergency loop around the Moon. Artemis II broke it by design in April 2026, flying exactly 4,101 miles farther — then proposing na

The Apollo 13 distance record was never meant to be a monument. It was a byproduct of a rescue.

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Science • Jul 18

The most common type of planet in the known galaxy is one that does not exist in our solar system — a world larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, a size our own neighbourhood entirely skipped, now counted in the thousands across NASA's confirmed

The strangest thing about our solar system may be what it is missing.

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Science • Jul 18

A Giant Structure Is Towering Over The Milky Way. After 40 Years, Scientists Have Worked Out What It Is

Scientists have just discovered the Milky Way's equivalent of a giant fake mustache.

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Science • Jul 18

Sun Fanglin, Chinese scientist who paved way for new cancer drugs, dies at 58

The Tongji University professor, who specialised in the study of how cells age and form tumours, led several national research programmes.

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Science • Jul 18

NASA has calculated, to the precise second, when Voyager 1 will be exactly one light-day from Earth: 2:16 a.m. on 18 November 2026, at a distance of 16,094,799,096 miles — a number that would have been science fiction when the probe launched in 1977

NASA has reduced one of the strangest milestones in human engineering to a timestamp.

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Science • Jul 18

Dinosaurs May Have Been Wiped Out by ‘Oddball’ Space Rock

By analyzing nickel isotopes preserved in the 66-million-year-old debris left by the Chicxulub impact, researchers conclude that the asteroid responsible...

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